This is what Pussy Riot has been doing since getting out of prison

If Russian President Vladimir Putin thought jail time would be enough to silence Pussy Riot members Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, he must be disappointed.

Since their December 2013 release from prison, where they were serving a two-year sentence for “hooliganism” after performing an anti-Putin "Punk Prayer" in an Orthodox church in Moscow, the pair has continued to be a thorn in the side of the Kremlin.

Prison, if anything, has made them louder. 

At their first news conference after being freed more than a year ago, when they declared “we are not Pussy Riot now,” Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina revealed plans to set up an NGO called Zona Prava, or Zone of Rights, which would fight to improve the conditions inside Russia's prisons and defend the legal rights of inmates.

Their surprise departure from the female punk band was later confirmed in an open letter penned by other members of the group. But despite officially leaving the band, Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina have continued to stage public protests and record anti-Putin songs under the now very famous name, "Pussy Riot."

In February 2014, less than two months after their release, they joined other ski-mask wearing Pussy Riot members for a protest at the Sochi Winter Olympics, earning themselves a horsewhipping by Cossacks and some more time in police custody.

While they were in the Black Sea resort city, Pussy Riot recorded and released a music video called “Putin will teach you to love the motherland." 

But as relations between Russia and the West deteriorated over Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and its support for pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina took their anti-Putin message overseas, where they were greeted with open arms, particularly in the United States.

In April they posed for a photo with potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the Women in the World summit in New York. Clinton tweeted that the two women are "strong and brave."

The following month they met with a group of US senators on Capitol Hill to discuss human rights abuses in Russia and to ask for sanctions against more Russian officials.

A few months later Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina were back on US soil, this time speaking at Harvard University's Institute of Politics about their highly publicized trial and the challenges of political activism in Russia.

In November, the two women were in London meeting with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy, where the WikiLeaks founder has been holed up since June 2012.

Next, in December, they traveled to New York City where they took part in street protests over the death of Eric Garner.

Garner died in July after a New York City police officer put him in an illegal chokehold and ignored his repeated cries of “I can’t breathe.”

A grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer responsible for Garner's death, which medical examiners ruled a homicide, sparked protests across the country and inspired the pair’s first song in English, entitled “I can’t breathe,” which they released this week.

The music video, which Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina directed and produced, shows the two women dressed in Russian riot police uniforms while being slowly buried alive in dirt.

"This song is for Eric and for all those from Russia to America and around the globe who suffer from state terror — killed, choked, perished because of war and state sponsored violence of all kinds — for political prisoners and those on the streets fighting for change," the video's YouTube blurb says.

"We stand in solidarity."